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Community Education & Outreach

The Community Education and Outreach Committee works with Oregon community leaders to motivate and empower young girls, pregnant mothers, parents and their children to choose balanced whole-food nutrition for themselves, their families and their communities. The Committee works solely through a core partner network, using existing infrastructure and connections to reach our target populations.

Its long term goal is to (re) introduce a whole-foods-based, hands-on, nutrition/culinary science experience in the curricula of Oregon K-12 schools, with concurrent engagement of parents/families and with sufficient flexibility to be adaptable nationally.

Guiding principles:

Honor community needs within a public health context

Capitalize on community talent

Engage parents, families

Respect diversity in language and culture

Current Projects:

Increase awareness among the Oregon community of the importance of whole-foods nutrition prior to conception and during the first 1000 days of life

Develop a Roadmap guiding the design of a school-based intervention program; prioritize and initiate elements within each of three phases: engagement, design, and implementation

Current Partners: (Please contact us to discuss partnership opportunities.)

Food Corps
The committee is partnering with FoodCorps to integrate DOHaD nutrition curriculum with all Food Corps sites nation-wide and provide training and mentoring to service members.

Oregon AHEC
Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) is a federally funded program which created and distributes the “In a Box” educational tools. The committee is collaborating with AHEC in development of a “Nutrition In a Box” curriculum.

National College of Natural Medicine
The committee has a strong partnership with the National College of Natural Medicine including access to their Ending Childhood Obesity project, a successful 12-week program providing nutrition education for families.

Heart’s Kitchen
A whole foods cookbook containing DOHaD science will be distributed in cooking class contexts for school-based parents and in clinic-based settings.